Messaging Apps Will Be Bigger Than Social Networks In 2015

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson believes “the social media
phase of the internet ended” this year. He says messaging apps
have replaced social media apps, where families rely on apps like
WhatsApp to communicate with each other instead of
Facebook.

Data seems to support this idea: Based on the
various messaging and social networks charted for us by BI Intelligence,
messaging apps added users faster than the social networks over
the last two years, and will probably eclipse social networks by
early 2015. That’s great news for Facebook, which owns two of the
most popular messaging apps right now, including Facebook
Messenger and WhatsApp, as well as two of the biggest social
networks, Facebook and Instagram.